I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Avanade (Boston, MA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Positive experience with the hiring team – professional, made quick decisions and always responsive – called or emailed whenever needed any additional information. Apart from the initial calls with the hiring manager, I had 4 phone interviews (over a period of 2 to 3 weeks) and 1 face to face interview. Out of the 4 phone interviews, 2 were technical (1st -1 hour, 2nd - 40 mins) and 2 were soft skills + checking whether the candidate would fit culturally + opportunity for the candidate to know about the position and company for 30 minutes each. Face to face interview covered technical, presentation skills, soft skills – all in one hour. Face to face interview would be generally with the person that the candidate would report to.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Questions on Azure based solution architecture - Web Role, Worker Role, Different Load Balancer Types, Site to Site VPN etc
Traditional Microsoft questions - Entity Framework, WEB API, REST, Data Security (transit + Rest)
Overall challenges in convincing clients to move to Cloud / Azure